from green to gorgeous!

So, many of you know that I used to be quite crafty before children took all my extra time (and I dont mind a bit).  Well, I got to revisit my creative side this weekend when I redid a couple of chairs.  I drove by and saw them sitting outside a thrift shop here in town.  I stopped immediately and checked them out.  I didnt buy them that day but I couldnt get them out of my head.  So I convinced Brad to go buy them with me a couple of days later.  Luckily, while he didnt see their potential AT ALL, he indulged me and bought them anyway.  Im excited at how they turned out.  From Gross and Green to Gold and Gorgeous!



before with a green seat and cream chair





after, with champagne mist chair paint and red/gold silk cushions!




I think they look fabulous in the dining room!



From paper plans to home sweet home!

This post is a month late... but our dream house is finally finished and I'm finally getting around to putting up our pictures!  These were taken 07/01/11 is the day before we moved in.  I must say, Brad and I have never been prouder than we were when we got the keys to our home sweet home.  It is everything and more that we envisioned it would be when we were sitting around our table on late nights looking at paper plans.  The last month has been wonderful getting settled in.  We are looking forward to many years of happiness and our children growing up in this wonderful home.

standing in front of the fire place in the living room

House is finished! We love it!

Laundry room

hall tree at entrance from garage

friends entry on side of house

half bath

family room that opens to kitchen

view into kitchen from family room

Kitchen

another view of kitchen

kitchen looking into family room

another kitchen picture

butlers pantry

living room

dinning room

Anna Kates Room downstairs

looking from living room to front door

entry way

master bedroom and sitting area

master bathroom

master bathroom (my side)

master bathroom (his side)

master shower

tub

looking into the playroom upstairs

the office for now/one day AKs room

Barnes' room upstairs

barnes bathroom

guest room upstairs

looking down the stairs

stairs

Summer Fun

I havent been a very good blogger lately!  We have had a lot on our plates.  The move is complete, we are mostly settled and loving our new home.  I have tons of pictures of the house to share (there are a few here) but I wanted to go ahead and post about our most important things... the little people!

the truck came very early on July 1!

the finished the house just in time and we LOVE it!





 Barnes is SOOO happy to finally live by Gavin.  Gavin has decided we don't live close enough and he wants to build a house on the lot next to us!  Sweet little friends!

 first bath in the new house

Barnes new hiding place is under Anna Kate's bed! He thinks hes so cute.. when I say, Barnes where are you, he says, I'm under the bed mommy!  HA!

We've had our first mishap in the new house~ Had to take Anna Kate to the emergency room last week because I thought she ate a safety pin.  Luckily she did NOT!  Xray found nothing.  WHEW! She sure was happy at the ER.



Barnes new favorite thing to play with is Play dough or as he says, "Mommy, can we get out the play date?"

Shes so happy!

we got a big beach ball sprinkler to replace the pool! (NOT really the same though!) Barnes asked me when the mans were delivering the pool! 



And the icing on the cake... there was a fireworks show right in our cove for the fourth of July on the weekend we moved in! Our neighbor had a get together and we got to enjoy the fireworks from the driveway.  Couldn't be more special!











11 days and counting!

We are in the final countdown of our house adventure!  We close on our current house (thank the good Lord above that it sold) in 9 days and we move into our new house in 11 days!! It seems as though we have been on this journey forever, but its flown by all at the same time.  Here are a few photos of the new house.  We are packing this house up as fast as we can since the moving trucks show up on July 2nd!  Say a prayer for us that it all comes together.  We have lots of balls up in the air.  We couldn't be happier with the way everything has turned out, we are so blessed.

 dining room

 kitchen

 kitchen island

 watching them pour the driveway and porch

 the driveway goes in

 master bath

 another view of the master